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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of engulfing, or the state of being engulfed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A swallowing up as if in a gulf.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of engulfing

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